Interactive Feedback

 Feedback as a form of instruction  Feedback as an element of dialogue, critical to deep learning  Feedback as an element of retention Waypoint Basics: Creating Exceptional FeedbackWaypoint Basics: Creating Exceptional Feedback This detailed walk through is designed for instructors who assess and respond to subjective, authentic student work.

 Measurement of learning objectives  Measurement of course objectives  Measurement of program objectives

Consistency occurs when all faculty use the same grading rubric  Consistent expectations  Consistent grading

 Online environment where technology abounds  Improve ease of providing ◦ feedback, ◦ Measurement, and ◦ consistency Creating Exceptional Feedback. FasterCreating Exceptional Feedback. Faster This six minute overview details Waypoint from an instructor's point of view.

 Waypoint originated with two challenges shared by all educators: creating the personalized, timely feedback that learners need, and measuring student progress in subjective (and important) areas like written communication, critical thinking, presentation skills, and information literacy.  We innovated around the basic idea of the rubric, the criteria-based assessment tool used by educators around the world in primary, secondary, tertiary, and post-tertiary education, and built a powerful platform that can be easily integrated with leading Learning Management Systems. Over one million evaluations of student work later, Waypoint has helped thousands of educators create better feedback more efficiently, and helped numerous institutions develop the data they need to understand their learners acquisition of the 21st Century skills that matter most.  Waypoint Outcomes creates innovative tools to help deepen the dialog amongst educators, learners, and stakeholders. Our assessment software is used by diverse K12 and Higher Education institutions around the world. 

 Lots and lots of little blue buttons  us/wayp-demo-center us/wayp-demo-center

Drexel University announces site license agreement ( academic year) in its Drexelink publication The Villanova University School of Law selects Waypoint for use in its legal writing program Subjective Metrics releases a beta version of a Building Block for the Blackboard Learning Management System™ that tightly integrates Waypoint with Blackboard Subjective Metrics announces new clients including The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, the Santa Clara County Office of Education, The Victoria College, The Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in Maryland, and Seton Hall University Subjective Metrics releases a module for the open- source Moodle Course Management System Texas A&M University launches Waypoint institution-wide via its Writing Across the Curriculum program. Read the Texas A&M Writing Center newsletter here (pdf, 9mb).

 Kaye Shelton, Dean of Online Education at Dallas Baptist University, presents DBU's implementation of Waypoint in "Measuring and Aggregating Learner Outcomes: Making Technology Do the Work!" at the Texas Distance Learning Association Conference, Corpus Christi TX  Dr. Barbara Newland, of Bournemouth University, presents "Enhancing Student Feedback on Assessments Using Waypoint" at Blackboard World Europe, Barcelona Spain.  Subjective Metrics welcomes MidAmerica Nazarene University as a new client.  Dr. Scott Warnock, Subjective Metrics' co-founder, presents " Assessments large and small with a Web-based rubric and data-collection tool.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Computer Connection  Waypoint Outcomes welcomes new clients, including Edison State College, Baldwin-Wallace College, Lebanon High School, and Cankdeska-Cikana Community College.

 The Drexel University College of Business features their use of Waypoint in a paper recently published in The Journal of Business and Technical Communication (abstract only).  Waypoint Outcomes welcomes new clients, including Fanny Lou Hamer High School, Dallas-Baptist University, Mililani High School, Saint Mary's College of California, and San Jose State University.  Waypoint Outcomes releases a customized solution for California's PACT consortia (Performance Assessment for California Teachers)  Waypoint Outcomes welcomes Wingate University as a new client.  Texas A&M University launches Waypoint institution-wide via its Writing Across the Curriculum program. Read the Texas A&M Writing Center newsletter here (pdf, 9mb).  Waypoint Outcomes is profiled in two presentations at the Drexel University e-Learning 2.0 Conference. Jason Slipp, an Instruction Technology Consultant from Lehigh University, presented Lehigh's implementation of Waypoint across four colleges (every college at Lehigh). Dr. Valarie Arms, from Drexel University, discussed using Waypoint for peer review to help structure student work in a hybrid learning environment. You can download the presentations:

 Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes including the University of Virginia, Wilkes University, and Lafayette College.  Waypoint Outcomes is profiled in the University of Pennsylvania's student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian. The article is called "Fighting for Feedback," and details the student experience receiving feedback from faculty along with the Wharton School's successful two-year implementation of Waypoint Subjective Metrics announces support for the Windows Mobile PDA platform. Read the press release here.  Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes, including Bloomsburg University and Lehigh University.  Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes, including Somerset Community College in Kentucky, Manhattan College, and the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University.  Drexel University's English Alive program is featured in Inside Higher Ed after a presentation at the 2007 NCTE conference in New York. Read the article here. English Alive, and co-director Dr. Valarie Arms, were the subject of the December 1st edition of the College Connection radio show. Drexel's English Alive program was the first client for Waypoint Outcomes, and the program is co- directed by Dr. Scott Warnock, VP Research and co-founder of Subjective Metrics, the developers of Waypoint.

 Seton Hall University faculty present "Assessment with a Difference: Waypoint Empowers Students, Faculty and Administrators" at the 13th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning in Orlando, Florida. ◦ Conference Abstract: "This presentation will illustrate the various ways Waypoint is used for: collecting data; evaluating student performance; and analyzing data for multiple purposes. These include: individual assessments; course assessments; program assessments; alignment to standards; accreditation evaluations. Suggestions for modifying and implementing Waypoint, a cost-effective tool for assessment will be presented."  Subjective Metrics welcomes new clients to Waypoint Outcomes, including the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Blended Schools.net, the Association of Christian Public Schools in South-West Fryslân (The Netherlands), and Los Angeles Mission College.  Subjective Metrics announces interoperability with Blackboard Vista 4.0. Read more.  Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, Gallaudet University in Washington DC.  Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District, Edinburg TX.

 Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, Green Dot Public Schools, Los Angeles CA  Subjective Metrics President and Founder, Andrew J. McCann, is a featured speaker at the Lehigh Valley Technology in the Classroom Symposium. McCann presented to over 80 faculty and administrators from the six colleges and universities of the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Schools.  Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, the William Paterson University of New Jersey.  Subjective Metrics releases a module for the open-source Moodle Course Management System.  Subjective Metrics welcomes its latest client, Valley City State University.  In collaboration with Grant Wiggins, Subjective Metrics launches iPowerFeedback.

 Subjective Metrics releases a beta version of its groundbreaking WpOutcomes analysis software to selected clients.  Subjective Metrics officially releases a Building Block for the Blackboard Learning Management System™. Subjective Metrics founder and president Andrew J. McCann is a featured speaker at Authentic Education's Making Grades Meaningful: A Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting Conference.  Subjective Metrics integrates Waypoint with the Wharton School of Business' proprietary webCafé e-learning platform. Subjective Metrics announces new clients including the Drexel University College of Engineering and Morgan State University.  Subjective Metrics announces new clients including The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, the Santa Clara County Office of Education, The Victoria College, The Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in Maryland, and Seton Hall University.  Waypoint is featured in University Business magazine, the magazine for college and university administrators. Read the article here.  Subjective Metrics releases a beta version of a Building Block for the Blackboard Learning Management System™ that tightly integrates Waypoint with Blackboard.

 Subjective Metrics partners with 4teacher.org to integrate the award winning and highly popular web-based tool RubiStar with Waypoint. Subjective Metrics is featured in a Philadelphia Business Journal article entitled, "Subjective Metrics Scores High in How Student Work is Graded."  Waypoint is selected by the Drexel University LeBow College of Business as a key tool in its AACSB accreditation initiatives to document student outcomes and continually improve instruction. ◦ Andrew McCann, Dr. Scott Warnock, and Estelita Young from WebCT present "Teaching and Enforcing Proper Documentation: Turnitin.com and WebCT" at the Fourth Annual Northeast US WebCT Conference. Dr. Scott Warnock presents at the 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication on technology solutions for responding to student writing. Dr. Heather McGovern, of the Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey, presents "Teaching with Technology: Online Rubric-Based Grading" at the 2006 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference.  Subjective Metrics donates $2,500 to the Drexel University Writing Program in recognition of its pioneering work in demonstrating Waypoint's utility and broad applicability The Villanova University School of Law selects Waypoint for use in its legal writing program.

 The Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey selects Waypoint for application in its general studies program. Read about Stockton's first impressions and applications for Waypoint in their November Evidence Newsletter (pdf, 172k)  The University of Pennsylvania Law School selects Waypoint for application in its legal writing curriculum.  Andrew McCann is the featured speaker in the Drexel University's e-Learning speaker series (includes links to a screencast and podcast of the event).  Archbishop Ryan High School, one of the largest Catholic high schools in the country with over 2,800 students enrolled, selects Waypoint to help improve feedback, PSAT scores, and advance writing across the curriculum initiatives.  The Drexel University College of Business pilots Waypoint for use in developing AACSB accreditation data, documenting student outcomes, and improving the feedback process.  Waypoint and Subjective Metrics, Inc. are featured in The Evening Bulletin article, "A Waypoint for Writing Instructors."

 Waypoint is the lead article, "Structured, Online Evaluations and the First Year Design Process", in IEEE Learning Technology.  Drexel University announces site license agreement ( academic year) in its Drexelink publication. The Lower Merion School District selects Waypoint to help teachers in its two award winning high schools create more detailed feedback more quickly and effectively. Waypoint is featured in Innovation Philadelphia.  Waypoint is featured in the Writing Program Administrators' Conference Presentation: Deconstructing Boundaries Through Technologically Enhanced Response.  Waypoint is featured in the WebCT User Conference Presentation: "Longitudinal Assessment, Accountability, and Productivity: Facilitating the Writing Process."  Waypoint is featured in the College Composition and Communication Convention Presentation: “A Web-Based Tool for Writing Evaluation and Curricular Assessment.”